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| Two militants of al-Badr arrested in Mysore | | | Bangalore, Oct 27 Two Pakistani militants were arrested in Mysore early today after a gunbattle with police which claimed to have foiled a "devastating" terror strike plan that could have targeted the imposing state secretariat building 'Vidhan Soudha' here.
Mohd Ali Hussain and Mohd Fahad, allegedly belonging to Pakistani terror outfit Al-Badr, were intercepted while they were riding a motorbike and captured after a shootout past midnight in Mysore, about 140 kms from here, Karnataka Director General of Police B S Sial told reporters.
Two constables and a militant suffered minor injuries in the gunbattle, he said, adding police had foiled the militants' plan to carry out "devastating strike" in Bangalore or some other parts of Karnataka.
Security in the state capital where an international IT event commences this evening, Mysore and other places was being tightened in the wake of the arrests.
Sketches of 'Vidhan Soudha' and its newly constructed annexe Vikasa Soudha, a satellite phone with numbers linked to Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan, a laptop and some commonly available chemicals used for making improvised explosive devices were recovered from the militants, Sial said.
An AK-47 rifle, a foreign made pistol, a cell phone, detonators, a digital camera and passports were also recovered from them, he said.
Describing their arrests as a "major breakthrough", the police chief said, "a major disaster or terrorist activity" has been averted in Bangalore or other places in Karnataka.
The two militants had also surveyed the Central Institute of Regional languages in Mysore, a reputed institute which attracts foreigners. |
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